Drawing from the Well: Access to Ireland’s Film Heritage.

TIME & LOCATION

Thursday 14 November, 12:00 pm

End Time: 1:00 pm

The Works

About

The ever growing Irish and Northern Irish film sector has seen an explosion in the training and development of film makers, the success of which is seen on screens across the world. The new filmmakers of today will be telling our stories on screen for years to come, but how can we connect this new generation of students and workers to the long and rich history of Irish film, on both sides of the border. Access to these titles in cinemas or on streaming platforms is a key part of any Irish filmmaker’s education, allowing a new generation to understand the depictions of Irishness on screen, the film language of the past, and allow the past to influence their work in years to come. 

 

In this session, we’ll explore how archives are making work available, the role that distributors play in getting screen heritage in front of audiences and who decides what is canon and what is not?

Chair

Hugh Odling-Smee

SPONSOR

Panel

Ciara Chambers

Head of the Department of Film & Screen Media, University College Cork
Dr Ciara Chambers is Head of the Department of Film & Screen Media, University College Cork and also works with Atticus Education, the digital education company established by Oscar-winning film producer Lord David Puttnam. She is currently working on the Make Film History project in partnership with Kingston University, BBC, NI Screen, the Irish Film Institute and the British Film Institute.

Hugh Odling-Smee (Chair)

Project Manager of Film Hub NI (FAN Champion area for Screen Heritage
Born and raised in Belfast, Hugh Odling-Smee has been the Project Manager for Film Hub NI, part of the BFI Film Audience Network, since 2013 and is based at the Queen’s Film Theatre. Hugh has a long pedigree of presenting and interpreting the cultural and social history of Northern Ireland in film, theatre and literature across the last 25 years. As an arts manager Hugh lead the Theatre and Performing Arts Archive at the Linen Hall Library, was Creative Producer of Kabosh Theatre Company and was the first director of the Belfast Book Festival.

Francis Jones

Head of Heritage & Archive at Northern Ireland Screen,
Head of Heritage & Archive at Northern Ireland Screen, Francis has over two decades’ experience in screen archive and culture roles. He is a Director of Film Archives UK, a member of the Royal Television Society Archive Group and Northern Ireland representative on the British Film Institute’s Nations and Regions Archive working group.